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Speciaal voor Gerda ( ;o) ) heb ik nog een hele kudde roodborstjes er bij geborduurd! Gisteravond ben ik verder gegaan met de kroon van de boom en wat een "takkewerk" is dat zeg ;) On special request of Gerda I stitched a whole bunch of robins! Yesterday I continued to stitch the crown, but all those branches are terrible to stitch.... Dit moet het uiteindelijk gaan worden trouwens: This is what it should look like in the end: En om nog even in stijl te blijven heb ik een kleine kerstfreebee ontworpen, die iedere klant straks van mij cadeau krijgt tijdens de Kerstdag en -fair en bij alle bestellingen in de webwinkel in december. Ik moet hem nog even leuk afwerken... This cute little Robin I designed as a Christmas freebee. Every customer will receive it, during the month December. Still have to finish it though... Voor mijn eigen administratie wilde ik graag een telmachine met papierrol. Deze zijn natuurlijk gewoon nieuw te koop in allerlei prijsklasses... ...

Ik ben momenteel overdag druk met pakketjes en patronen etc maken voor de komende Kerst Opendag en Kerstfair en dan heb ik weinig rust in mijn hoofd voor het ontwerpen van nieuwe patronen. Op zich ook wel lekker want dan kan ik 's avonds eindelijk weer eens wat borduren aan m'n WIP's die al tijden in de kast liggen te verstoffen! Momenteel heb ik Nell' Aria van Renato Parolin op de standaard zitten en ik heb al best weer een stukje geborduurd. Wel grappig, want ik zag dat de laatste update precies 2 jaar geleden was! At the moment I'm busy making kits and charts for the upcoming Christmas events and I don't have the peace to make new designs. So I finally have time to stitch one of my WIP's! At the moment Nell' Aria of Renato Parolin is on my floor stand and I did make quit some progress. Such a coincidence because the last update was exactly 2 years ago!!!

Moet je kijken wat er na ongeveer anderhalf jaar uit de kast gekomen is! HAED's Merlin & Arthur! Eindelijk heb ik weer de rust en de tijd gevonden om aan een groot borduurproject te werken. De vraag is voor hoelang natuurlijk... Maar ik heb er gisteravond wel weer heerlijk aan zitten prikken. Loot what came out the closet, after almost one and a halve year! HAED's Merlin & Arthur! Finally I've got the time and the piece, to work on a large project again. But for how long....? Anyway last night I enjoyed stitching it very much. Close up: En voor degenen die vergeten zijn wat het moet worden... Dit dus: And for those of you who forgot what it should become.... This: Je ziet het boek wat rechtsonder op de grond ligt. You're looking at the book, that's bottom right on the floor. Have a nice weekend! Hugs, Simone

Eindelijk, na anderhalf jaar geleden begonnen te zijn, heb ik weer eens lekker zitten prikken aan "Sampler Rond" van Anagram. Finally, after starting this, one and a half year ago, I did some stitching on "Sampler Rond" by Anagram again. Ik heb er nu ongeveer weer een hele pagina van het patroon bij geborduurd en hij is nog steeds prachtig! Binnenkort meer... (hoop ik) I stitched about a whole page and still love it! Soon to be followed.... (I hope) Hugs, Simone

Ik ben helaas niet meer verder gegaan met de sneeuwmannen-quilt, maar heb nog wel lekker zitten prikken. Dus Diana's RR is ook af! Unfortunately I didn't continue the snowmen-quilt, but I did a lot of stitches. So Diana's RR is finished also! Diana heeft haar eigen kleurencombinatie gemaakt, met veel paars. Diana made her own color conversion, with a lot of purple. En omdat ik nog niet kon kiezen welke WIP ik uit de kast ging trekken, heb ik nog maar een blokje voor de Rouennerie quilt geborduurd. Because I hadn't decided yet which WIP I should pick up, I've stitched another block for the Rouennerie quilt. Part of "Rêve de Brodeuse" by Mon Ami Pierre. Inmiddels heb ik besloten dat ik Sampler Ronde van Anagram Diffusion maar 'ns onder het stof vandaan ga halen. In the mean time I've decided to dust off Sampler Ronde from Anagram Diffusion and pick it up again. Hugs, Simone

You might have noticed that my birthday is coming near.... And yesterday I allready received my first present! It's from Wendy Jo. I did a personal birthday exchange with her. I'm trying to be strong and wait 'till May 4 th before I'm opening it... I'm in four different birthday exchanges, so there will be lots of presents this year! :) Today another big envelope fell on my doorstep... And it was not for my birthday... It's from Marne !!! When Marne came here for our Crazy exchange Quilting Bee, she noticed all the birdhouses in my backyard. So when she found this book, she thought of me! Thank you so much, Marne, I love the book!!! And here is my first update of Renato Parolin's "Nell'Aria" after two nights of stitching. I'm using DMC on a 35 ct. tea dyed french linen. It's stitching pretty fast. Hugs, Simone BTW; be on the look out for a Blogoversary give-away!

I'm finally making some progress on Merlin. There's a lot of the same color in this part. I'm nearly half way this page now. I want to finish this page, but all the things I've kitted up last week are shouting at me ("start me, start me"). So I don't know for sure, if I will make it 'till the end of the page ;) Hugs, Simone

Here's another progress pic of Merlin and Arthur. I'm glad that the roses are almost done. They were terrible to stitch! A lot of confetti and it was spread over four pages... Hugs, Simone

I finally took out my HAED again! I had to check on my WIP's page , to see that it was over half a year ago that I stitched on this... And I was really surprised to see, that I started this in March 2006. So I'm already working on this for almost 3 years! Thursday evening I started on page 7 (which is the 8th page I'm working on). And after 2 evenings this white bulb (a piece of sky) is my progress! But I'm starting to feel addicted again, so that's the good news! This is what it should look like in a few years: Hugs, Simone

I had Anagram's "Sampler Rond" kitted up for a while, and last week I've finally started it! This is the first pic of it: It's about a half page of the center. And this is what it should look like:

Last Saturday I received my Christmas in July ornament exchange from Wendy Jo ! Wendy Jo made me a wonderful hanger from a design by Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin, called "Christmas Heart Pin Cushion". Wendy Jo also sent some extra's. A scissors sack and 2 skeins of GAST. I love the exchange! Feels kind of weird though, Christmas in July... The last 2 weeks or so, I was stitching on HAED's Merlin & Arthur. I finally finished another (half) page! This is what I did so far: And here's a close-up of this page: It's very hard to get a good pic, because the colors are so dark. But there is a deer's head in it... I'm currently stitching on a Birtdhay exchange and SBEBB's Redwork exchange.

Last week I've stitched part 9 and 10 of Bent Creek's Red Thread serie. I received the buttons for the border also, so I added them right away. I really like this project!!! Problem is that I have to wait untill the next parts come, to finish it... I allready saw them on the net, and I want them NOW!!! But, since I'm doing this as a monthly club, I have to be patient.... These two drawers are the last parts of the LNS that my great-aunt use to own, over 30 years ago.... Unfortunatly I was to young to remember it. She closes the shop down because she became ill. And since the shop was part of her house, everything of the shop was removed. My uncle had a part of the shop's cupboard in his garage and kept screws and such, in it (what a shame!!!). I heard that he was cleaning out, and asked him about the DMC-drawers, but I was already too late... These two drawers were the only one that could be saved :( So I cleaned them and now I use them for some of my floss stash. I rea...

Whoohoo! I finally finished a page again of HAED's Merlin & Arthur (by Scott Gustafson)! And I made Arthur appear: I really love the way it looks, but it's going soooooo slow.... It's all confetti! On my website you can also see the diagram of what I stitched so far...

Design: "Armenian Karpet" from Dutch dollshouse magazine "Poppenhuis en miniaturen" Fabric: 28 ct. linen Floss: DMC, half stitches over 1 Finish: karpet Whoohoo!!! This karpet became a big UFO because I didn't like to stitch it anymore. But there was wonderful Esther who volunteerd to finish it for me!!! She managed to finish it in just 2 weeks or so... The karpet is for the dollshouse, my father is building for several years. Maybe this motivates him to continue with the dollshouse!

Yesterday I've finished part 7 of Bent Creek's Red Thread Snapper serie. This project is so much fun to stitch! This is what the total looks like, so far (I've finished the complete border, but it almost doesn't fit on a picture!): Next project will be this stitchingtray . I'm doing a SAL with this on the Dutch Borduurhoekje-group. Wishing you all a nice weekend full of stitches!

Yesterday I finished page 16 from HAED's Merlin & Arthur. This was only a half page. The colors are very dark, so it's a bit hard to see....

(sorry, for the bad picture) Finally... It's been over 7 months since I stitched the last time on Long Dogs' Do Bears! I should be ashamed of myself.... But I'm having to much fun with all the exchanges I'm in! And my WIP's are being neglected because of that. :( I almost forgot how nice it is to stitch with the Gloriana Silk ("Poinsettia")! I made some great progress, in my opinion. I stitched the "lace" in the middle and all the borders. And also made a begin with the bear and the snail and the tree at the bottom. You can see the progress I've made so far here . Thank you for your sweet comments on the Halloween-flatfold. They are highly appreciated! Have a nice weekend! Hugs, Simone